What's your hurry? . . . .

What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking, and just are. Summer is my period of grace.

-Ellen Goodman

Enjoy every moment . . . .

However you choose to spend your holiday weekend, whether you are  traveling or staying home, may you stay safe, find happiness & complete relaxation. If you are spending time with the people who mean the most to you, may you enjoy laughter, good conversation, and appreciate those memories for a long time to come. Whether you are cooking or making reservations, may you enjoy every bite. If you are making this a work weekend, may you be productive and feel the satisfaction of completion when it's all said & done. 

Change it up a bit! 

Shake up your routine! 

Replenish your soul.

"The best cure for an off day, is a day off."

-Frank Tyger

P.S. I am kicking off the summer 
by spending the weekend  

at my cottage in Michigan, 

and the weather forecast looks beautiful!

  

I'll be planting my flowers, 

and hanging out in my garden,

spending some time on Oval beach, 

and heading to The Red Dock to enjoy 

my first Rum Punch of the summer. 

 I plan on enjoying every meal outside, 

taking a ride on my new Vespa, 

and just hanging out with my husband.

Happy Memorial Day weekend!

xo


Photo credits:
#1 Sunday in Bed
#2 Nick Vorderman
#3 myself
#4 Felicia Fairchild
#5 Google Images

Highlight of the day . . . .

I recently came across a article about a study revealing that people became gradually happier and happier over a six-month period, by simply writing down three good things that happened to them at the end of each day. When my kids were growing up, we did something very similar at the evening dinner table. We called it the "highlight of the day", and we would go around the table and take turns sharing one thing that we considered to be the best thing about our day. It allowed us to focus on the good, and to take a break from discussing our daily challenges. Yesterday, my 3 highlights were:

• Reconnected with a friend.
• Enjoyed a lovely dinner & conversation with my husband and my son.
• Won a game of tennis.

You can start writing down the good things that happen. A simple, small shift of focus towards gratefulness will bring great results and you can start it today.

What was your highlight?

So many reasons . . . .

Girlfriends!

Road trips!

It's lighter longer!

Rain!

Spring is near! 

...and because it's a choice 

you get to make!

Photo credits:

#1, 3, 4 & 5  Pinterest

#2  Kate Spade

#6  Pia Ulin via Agent Bauer

I'm getting there . . . .

• Get back on track after a long holiday weekend.  √
• Find new inspiration.  
• Complete one random act of kindness......(anonymously).
• Eat healthy after a weekend of complete indulgence.  
• Say thank you - (out loud).  √
• Pay attention.  √
• Give one thing away.
• Nurture one friendship.  √
• Fix something.
• Laugh.  √
• Clear my inbox.  
• Enjoy the journey.  √

Have a wonderful day!  √

We get to be here! . . . .

I love what Neil of 1,000 Awesome Things has to say about living life! He says....

"We get to live! We get to be here! We're in the 80% of the world who can read, the 20% of the world with Internet access, and the some-other-percent of the world who as time to stop and think about things like happiness and small pleasures and awesome moments.

I guess I like to stop and remember sometimes that we'll never be as young as we are right now. We only get a hundred years to enjoy everything in this world. Every single person we know will be gone in a hundred years - from grocery store cashiers, to telemarketers who call us at dinner, to the people behind us at movies. We've only got a hundred years to enjoy interior design, horoscope signs, books, buffets, and radio waves, clean sheets and good movie seats, bakery air, rain hair, bubble wrap, and illegal naps.

So I think my personal highlight has been that - remembering and reminding myself how much joy and happiness there really is in the simple things in life. And how important they are to so many of us every day."

Thank you Neil.

Photo by Antti Viitala via One League Artists